Slides from the OSCI Toolkit workshop @ MCN2012

1. Digital Publishing
with the
Gray Bowman
Application Developer gbowman@imamuseum.org
Indianapolis Museum of Art @latenightwgray
Kyle Jaebker
Application Development Manager kjaebker@imamuseum.org
Indianapolis Museum of Art @kjaebker
Charles Moad
Acting CIO; Director IMA Lab cmoad@imamuseum.org
Indianapolis Museum of Art @cmoad

2. AGENDA
• Getting to know the OSCI toolkit
• Getting up and running
• Authoring content
• Publishing content
• Creating custom web publications
• Q&A

3. What do you want out of today’s workshop?

4. http://craigmod.com/journal/platforming_books/

6. http://www.cleaningmonalisa.com/

7. IMA’s OSCI Initiative

8. What’s a toolkit?

9. http://oscitoolkit.org

13. Experimental Prototypes

14. Multi-column Layouts

15. Responsive Layouts

16. Easy Citation

17. Rich Search

18. Interactive Content

25. Sandbox Info
http://mcn2012.oscitoolkit.org
http://ima.tc/oscifiles

26. Installation

27. Standard Profile

28. Clone Github Repository

29. Run Build Script

30. Enable Modules

31. Add Blocks to Sidebar

32. Backbone JS and the Frontend
OSCI Reader Implementation
• Consumes ePub Components
• Extend or Replace
11 Models
26 Views
21 Templates

33. OSCI-Toolkit-Frontend
Vanilla Reader

34. AIC Custom Frontend
• 9 Replaced Views
• 5 New Views
• 8 Templates

35. AIC Custom Frontend

36. Frontend Configuration
Devel.html
• Package Endpoint
• Template Locations
• API Endpoints
• Toolbar Controls
• Default Section View
• Section View Options
• Paragraph Controls
• Application Initialization

37. OSCI APIs
JSON Transport
User Notes Search
Citations Figures

38. User
/api/users
• User Session
• Login / Logout
• Registration

39. Notes
http://example.com/api/notes
• Store and retrieve a user’s notes for
publication
• Paragraph level

40. Search
/api/search
• Utilizes Solr
• Searches content of publications
• Results returned at paragraph level

41. Citations
/api/citations
• Retrieves a citation for a publication at the
paragraph level
• Currently supports MLA and Chicago style
citations

42. Figures
/ajax/figure/asset-options
• Retrieve instance specific options for each
figure

43. Recommended Tools
• ePub Viewers
• Azardi - http://azardi.infogridpacific.com/
• Readium - http://readium.org/
• Calibre - http://calibre-ebook.com/
• Kindle Previewer -
http://www.amazon.com/gp/feature.html?ie=UTF8&docId=10002
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• iBooks – The iOS app store
• Aldiko - http://www.aldiko.com/ (Google Play Store)

44. Recommended Tools
• Converters
• KindleGen -
http://www.amazon.com/gp/feature.html?ie=UTF8&docId=10002346
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• Calibre - http://calibre-ebook.com/
• Misc
• Book Proofer – Available from Apple with an iTunes
Connect account